Vassilios Karnaros (PhD  student),  Dani Renfrey (Research Assistant), Megan Dubowsky (phD student), A/Prof Mary-Louise Rogers (Lab Head) and Dr Stephanie Shepheard  (Post Doc)

Associate Professor Mary-Louise Rogers was awarded 1 of 2 FightMND Collaborative Initiaitive grants for 2022.

Collaborative Initiatives projects aim to establish new or expand on existing MND research programs, platforms and initiatives that enable researchers to collect, share and analyse data and drive collaboration with a range of stakeholders to deliver patient-focused initiatives.

This grant (2022-2025), involves a collaboration with the preModi Initiative in Europe (led by Professor Paul Lingor of the Technical University of Munich) and Professor Anna King of the Wicking Institute (University of Tasmania).

This international collaborative project will build a biomarker fingerprint of MND to fast-track diagnosis and identify causes of the disease. The project utilises the Ian Davis Flinders University Biomarker Facility named in honour of the late co-founder of FightMND, Dr Ian Davis OAM.

“This is an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with MND researchers in Europe and Australia to, for the first time, identify an ‘early signature or fingerprint’ of MND.” – Associate Professor Mary-Louise Rogers.